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I think its actually 8TB and under that WD switched to SMR. All their drives over 8TB are CMR, last I heard.
by dml2135 2y ago
I think its actually 8TB and under that WD switched to SMR. All their drives over 8TB are CMR, last I heard.
- alias_neo 2y agoYou're probably right, I forget which way around it was, but if I was to take an educated guess, I'd say that SMR on the lower capacity models lets them cut costs because the added density of SMR lets them use fewer platters?
- dml2135 2y agoI'm not sure why SMR would save costs on lower capacity drives but not higher capacity drives. It may be a technical reason, but I'd also find a corporate-strategic reason to be plausible -- i.e., they were like, any consumers that give a shit about something as technical as SMR vs CMR are probably the ones buying our high-capacity drives.